Monster Hunter Gathering

Volume: Magical Girl and Black and White

Chapter 288 Cardcaptor Sakura!

Sakura Kinomoto is a fourth-grade student at Tomoeda Elementary School.

Although her mother passed away a long time ago, her father and brother still gave Sakura a happy family. Originally, Sakura didn't think there was anything special about her life except that she was very happy, until she found a book containing the Clow Cards in her home.

And then... she met Xiao Ke, the sealed beast, and later met a boy named Li Syaoran. Her life also changed from that of an ordinary elementary school student to a wonderful life of collecting Clow Cards while wearing clothes given by her good friend Tomoyo.

Just when Sakura thought her life would continue like this...

“Wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!”

The next moment after Sakura opened the door to go home, she found that the door she passed through was not the home she was familiar with, but instead she appeared in front of the gate of a somewhat rough-looking stronghold.

This sudden feeling of traveling through time startled Sakura. She instinctively thought she had encountered another incident caused by the Clow Cards...

Sakura instinctively wanted to turn around and ask Xiaoke who was beside her, but when she turned around, she found that not only was Xiaoke not there, but the door that she had opened when she came was also gone.

In the next moment after Sakura panicked, a grown man with a cat on his head suddenly jumped out, fired a salute with a bang, and then cheered: "Welcome, welcome! Warm welcome!"

“Wuhei——!!”

Xiaoying was frightened by Nie Chiwu's sudden appearance and instinctively took a few steps back. She even immediately took out her magic wand and Clow Cards from her backpack, as if she was ready to unleash magic at the slightest disagreement...

However, what Sakura didn't expect was that when she took out her iconic bird-head magic wand and the Clow Cards, Nie Chiwu's eyes suddenly lit up like a flash.

"I got a gold prize from a single draw!!! It's Sakura!!!"

Nie Chiwu stretched his hands toward the sky and cheered, "I knew it! The magical girls I know are all normal... Great! That's exactly the kind of magical girl we want! That's it!!"

"Big brother, do you... know me?" Xiaoying hesitated after hearing Nie Chiwu calling out her name, and asked timidly to the man she met for the first time.

"Yes, of course I do." Nie Chiwu rushed to Xiaoying with tears in his eyes and said, "You have been my goddess since I was a child! I have been your fan since I started elementary school!"

"Huh?" Xiaoying was confused by Nie Chiwu's words.

What strange things was this big brother saying? She was only ten and a half years old. How could she be the goddess that this strange big brother had been with since childhood?

"Wait! I know you have a lot of questions now... Don't worry! You can return to your world at any time!" Nie Chiwu noticed Xiaoying's slight uneasiness and raised his hands to indicate that he had no hostility: "I am Nie Chiwu, the leader of this gathering. You can try calling the gathering panel. From there, you can return to your own world at any time, or come to the gathering..."

After a moment of confusion, Xiaoying followed what Nie Chiwu said, disappeared from the meeting for a while, and then reappeared in the meeting.

After confirming that she could really go back, Sakura felt much more at ease. She finally asked curiously, "Where is this place, Grand Captain?"

"Brother..." Nie Chiwu's blood pressure nearly burst through his veins due to Xiaoying's shout, but he still managed to smile and said to Xiaoying, "Well, let me introduce you slowly, first."

"We've prepared some delicious cakes. Do you want to eat and chat?"

————The head of the group is explaining————

After arriving at the real core of the gathering, the [canteen], Sakura witnessed many incredible scenes.

For example, those ferocious-looking creatures flying in the distant sky.

Or the cute Felyns busying around at the gathering.

These were sights Sakura had never seen before.

Then, Sakura saw a cafeteria with a banner hanging on it, and a huge cake that was taller than herself. On the huge banner above it was written...

【Warmly welcome the magical girls to join the Hunter family! 】

This sudden enthusiasm made Sakura confused.

Afterwards, Xiaoying listened carefully to Nie Chiwu's explanation and found out what was going on.

"That means... I've become that... hunter, right?" Sakura said with tears in her eyes.

"That's right!" Nie Chiwu smiled brightly.

"But I just want to be an ordinary elementary school student!" Sakura worried: "First, he suddenly became a Sorcerer of Clow, and now he's become a Hunter... Why is it like this..."

"I'm very happy that you are the newcomer to our team." Nie Chiwu looked at Xiaoying with eyes full of expectation.

Sakura...can be considered as one of the earlier magical girls. Even Sakura's transformation was entirely due to the gentle sponsorship of her good friend Tomoyo.

But there is no doubt that Sakura has a very good personality and character, and Sakura in the future will undoubtedly be a god!

"Don't worry, being a hunter isn't mandatory," Nie Chiwu said gently to Xiaoying, "Our place is more like... a club, or like a club in your school."

After Nie Chiwu's explanation, Xiaoying gradually felt at ease, but she was still a little hesitant about becoming a hunter.

After all... hunting dragons or monsters, and saving other worlds are too far away for her, a ten-year-old elementary school student!

"I'm sorry, Captain, I need to think about it again..." Sakura bowed her head and apologized to Nie Chiwu.

"It's okay. This kind of big thing really needs serious consideration." Nie Chiwu smiled. "If you want to know anything about your future, you can always come to me."

"Hmm..." Sakura breathed a sigh of relief, thanked Nie Chiwu, and then looked distractedly at the particularly tempting cut cream cake on the table.

The delicate cream icing, with a little crystal syrup hanging on it, and the cut cake revealed the soft cake base underneath... and the most distracting thing was that this cake exuded a particularly tempting fragrance that Sakura had never smelled before. It was the special taste of the rich local ingredients of Monster Hunter.

"Come and have a piece." Nie Chiwu smiled, and then... the meeting panel in front of him popped up the news that new people were coming.

"What a coincidence! Two newcomers arrived right after each other." Nie Chiwu became happy. "This one should also be an orthodox magical girl like Sakura! I can feel my luck exploding!"

Chapter 289 Newcomer List

"Come! Let me sneak out and give our newcomer a surprise..."

Nie Chiwu stood behind the rally gate, wearing a wriggling eel mask, hiding behind the thick doorpost and listening to the noise outside. He was ready to jump out and fire a salute to give the newlyweds a surprise as soon as there was any movement.

Then Nie Chiwu heard a girl's shocked and questioning voice coming from outside the gathering gate: "What is this place? Could it be a demon? Then Tao Shi will be in danger again! No! I have to..."

Although Nie Chiwu heard what the girl said, he jumped out before his brain had time to think, and fired a salute with full of welcome: "Welcome to the newcomer to join the group..."

"Aa ...

Under Nie Chiwu's gaze, the girl who was dressed in a distinct pink hue glowed in front of Nie Chiwu's eyes.

"Oh! A pink magical girl! A single shot is a sure thing..." Before Nie Chiwu's excited expression could end, he saw the petite girl in front of him gradually growing taller and eventually becoming a little taller than Nie Chiwu, turning into a big-chested muscular man with pink hair and a pink magical girl skirt.

Then, a huge fist came closer and closer to Nie Chiwu's sight...

"Wait..." Before Nie Chiwu could finish his words, he was hit in the face by a powerful punch and fell to the ground. Then he was chased by the newcomer.

Nie Chiwu was baptized by wrestling techniques at the door of his own gathering, and was beaten to a bloody pulp by the newcomers' punches and kicks...

It was also at this time that Nie Chiwu finally recognized the identity of the newcomer - Unosaki, the protagonist of [I am a Magical Girl].

A new-age magical girl who transforms into a pink physicist with muscular build!

After beating Nie Chiwu to a bloody pulp, Uno Saki also noticed something wrong. For one thing, Nie Chiwu did not resist...but the feeling of her hand was also wrong.

Unosaki then noticed that the head she thought was a demon's face seemed to be artificial...

Uno Saki slowly took off the hood of Nie Chiwu who was lying on the ground with trembling hands, and the next moment she saw his eyes that looked like he was still open in death.

"It's over! I actually killed a human being, I'm a criminal!" Unosaki sat down with his muscular body: "What should I do? I'm sorry... Sakurayo, I can't be an idol anymore. It seems that this is the only thing I can do, turn myself in..."

"Cough cough cough puff cough cough."

Just when Unosaki was about to surrender himself, Nie Chiwu, who was lying on the ground with his eyes open, took out a bottle of green tea from his backpack and drank it. The injuries on his body healed visibly.

"Welcome, ahem." Nie Chiwu stood up like a zombie, covered in blood. "Don't hit me anymore. Let me explain to you what happened..."

About twenty minutes later, Nie Chiwu sat in the cafeteria with a complicated expression, looking at the two magical girls who were sharing a cake in front of him, his expression somewhat solemn.

Unosaki had already cancelled her magical girl transformation before entering the cafeteria, so Sakura had no idea what a strange appearance this pink-haired older sister would look like after her transformation.

The second new member, the good news is that she is indeed a magical girl, and a pink magical girl that is comparable to the red warriors of the team.

The bad news is, she's from the post-Magical Girl era.

"So, you've seen the anime featuring us, and we're invited here to become Hunters, and then go save other worlds?" Unosaki said as she ate her cake. "And the gathering will provide us with all-around support... and even food and lodging? And there will be other newcomers coming later, right?"

"That's about it..." Nie Chiwu said with a helpless expression, "But I don't know who will be coming this time."

"If you want a list, the Felyne cats have already looked it up," Granny Cat said kindly, holding a new Wiggler Eel headpiece she was knitting. "Three new hunters are coming, all very cute and young magical girls."

"Am I a magical girl too? And the protagonist!" Sakura was a little shocked.

"Magic! Girl! And she wears cute clothes to fight monsters! If she's not a magical girl, then what is she!" Nie Chiwu said righteously, "Sakura is my magical girl enlightenment!"

"Cat Granny! Give me the list! I want to confirm who the other three magical girls who will be coming later are." Nie Chiwu cheered himself up and prepared to continue his single draw from the card pool.

The cat lady nodded kindly and signaled the cat Elu next to her to get the list. Soon a thick piece of paper was brought to Nie Chiwu.

Sakura and Unosaki, who were still hesitating whether to join the gathering, couldn't help but feel a little curious about the remaining three magical girls.

What would the other magical girls look like?

At this moment, Nie Chiwu, who was looking at the list, felt his heart beating violently, almost jumping out of his throat.

Besides Sakura and Unosaki, there are three other names on the list.

"Koushu Momixiang..." Nie Chiwu remembered that this was the name of the magical girl in RE:talker... no, it was the name of the magical girl in RE:Creator.

"Tachibana Hibiki..." The protagonist of the Senki Zessou, a cheerful, optimistic, silly, and helpful Sentai Red Warrior type character, a girl who fights by singing but can't use magic but can transform...

Furthermore, Nie Chiwu couldn't even imagine that this was a newcomer recruited by the Felyne cats, the protagonist who had ushered in the era of magical girl depression, the one whose karma had so burdened her that she had immediately ascended to godhood and achieved the principle of the circle by becoming a magical girl...

"Kaname Madoka?!!"

Nie Chiwu was completely shocked by the list of new members.

Although Nie Chiwu knew that many magical girls were above standard, the new batch of magical girls he recruited seemed too above standard.

No matter how you look at it, it seems like a group of female gods have come down to earth to rescue these men who are struggling to hunt dragons.

Especially Sakura and Madoka, they were both heading for the Tenzun of Tenzun.

After this, why would he bother to work so hard bit by bit to save the world? He would just go straight up and become the leader and not eat Qilin horns...

"Captain, they're just ordinary girls now. They don't have the power you think they do." Granny Cat said, calming Nie Chiwu down. "And... for some of them, once they possess great power, they face difficulties that the hunters can no longer save them."

Nie Chiwu calmed down completely and realized what Grandma Cat meant.

"I understand." Nie Chiwu looked at the list in his hand: "Potential stocks, is that what you mean?"

"And the most important point is, the time they're in now... there's still a chance for change! Is that what you mean?"

Chapter 290 Crazy Dragon Virus

"Big Captain, are those names you just mentioned other newcomers?" Sakura, cream still stained on the corners of her mouth, curiously asked Nie Chiwu about the other magical girls: "What is rescue? Is their future... bad?"

"……how to say."

Nie Chiwu glanced at the lovely Xiaoying and said, "As far as stories are concerned, there are always some regrets, and not all stories have happy endings..."

Nie Chiwu hesitated for a moment whether to tell these somewhat sad stories to Xiaoying, who was only ten years old now.

But Nie Chiwu finally said: "Tachibana Hibiki went through a lot of hardships, but at least the final outcome was good."

"But the other two..." Nie Chiwu was silent for a moment when he looked at the names of Momixiang and Xiaoyuan.

There is no need to say much about Madoka. In her world, becoming a magical girl will inevitably lead to tragedy.

Mamika, the magical girl who appeared in RE Creator and came to the Creator's world, was eventually killed by the military princess Altair.

[Trivia: Mamika's name might actually be derived from Madoka. Mamika is pronounced (mamika), Mami is (mami), and Madoka is (Madoka). So, how should I put it...it's the malice of the highest worldview.]

"Don't worry." Nie Chiwu forced a smile at the two girls in front of him: "I will help them. There is no reason to sit back and do nothing!"

"There's no reason... to let these girls bear all the responsibilities, right?" Nie Chiwu grinned. "Since they've become members of the Hunter's Gathering, as the Grand Master, it's my responsibility to guide them towards a better future. This is what adults should do."

"! Mr. Commander, you turn out to be a good person!" Unosaki was a little excited.

"...Why don't I look like a good person?" Nie Chiwu's face darkened, but he still tried to reassure the two girls: "Also, don't worry about your future. Nothing terrible is going to happen."

Sakura and Unosaki were both relieved by Nie Chiwu's words. After eating the special cake made by Grandma Cat, they prepared to return to their own world.

"If you have time later, come to the gathering again." Nie Chiwu said with a smile, "I'll prepare all your stories."

"Also, just call me Grand Captain." Nie Chiwu gave the girls a thumbs-up and a bright smile. "Even if you don't want to become a Hunter... it's still okay to be friends, right? I'll introduce you to the other Hunters and receptionists at the gathering. They're all very nice people."

"Thank you, Captain." Sakura bowed politely to Nie Chiwu. Unosaki also said goodbye to Nie Chiwu, and the two returned to their original world from the gathering together.

"Ah, I'm really in a good mood after meeting the new members!" Nie Chiwu hummed easily as he helped Grandma Cat clean up the dishes on the table. However, he found that the used dishes seemed to be stained with some black powder-like substance that had been shaken off.